{"id":793194,"date":"2026-10-06T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793194\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:50:08","slug":"6-london-broncos-stars-in-papua-new-guineas-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793194\/","title":{"rendered":"6 London Broncos stars in Papua New Guinea’s World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six of London Broncos<\/a>\u2019 Championship-winning squad will go to the Rugby League World Cup with Papua New Guinea, Jason Demetriou has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Demetriou has been in charge of PNG since August 2024, and at club level, heads up London having been appointed ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

Sunday afternoon saw his Broncos side complete the domestic treble, hammering Doncaster to win the Championship Grand Final having already lifted both the Championship League Leaders\u2019 Shield and 1895 Cup.<\/p>\n

The capital club will discover within the next month or so whether they will be permitted entry to Super League for 2027, as is expected to be the case.<\/p>\n

But for Demetriou and a big contingent of the Broncos squad, attention turns to this autumn\u2019s World Cup with the Kumuls.<\/p>\n

Kumuls squad to have heavy London influence<\/p>\n

Circa 48 hours on from guiding his side to their Grand Final triumph, Demetriou flew out to Papua New Guinea on Monday.<\/p>\n

And he has confirmed that six of London\u2019s stars will be on the plane come Wednesday to join him, with Jeremiah Simbiken the only Kumul in the Broncos\u2019 squad that has not made his 23-man international squad.<\/p>\n

Demetriou said: \u201cThe other six boys will be on the plane on Wednesday and we\u2019re looking forward to getting into camp with the Kumuls boys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took a fair risk to come over here with me and they\u2019ve spoken about the opportunity I\u2019ve given them, but they\u2019ve given me a lot more. I\u2019m just thankful that they believed in what we were doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we play is similar with the Kumuls. We\u2019re fortunate to have an electric nine in Edwin (Ipape) and we play upstream and fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all very similar, but with any World Cup, you\u2019re sitting around waiting and hoping your best players are available. Alex (Max) and Epel (Kapinias) got a touch up in training because they didn\u2019t play on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Demetriou has flown out to Papua New Guinea on Monday and six<\/p>\n

The Kumuls host Lebanon (October 17) and Samoa (October 24) in Port Moresby before playing their final group game against England in Wollongong on October 30.<\/p>\n

London in limbo<\/p>\n

Back at club level, Demetriou explained London remain in limbo around their divisional status for 2027, explaining: \u201cWe\u2019ve got 20 signed for next year so there\u2019s still eight-to-ten players waiting to see what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say what\u2019s happening because it changes things dramatically if we\u2019re in Super League with overseas players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still haven\u2019t got my head around what the Championship looks like if that happens, so there\u2019s a lot of things that need to fall into place. But we\u2019re confident we can pull the trigger if and when that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six of London Broncos\u2019 Championship-winning squad will go to the Rugby League World Cup with Papua New Guinea,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}